Focusing on the Collection

For Love of the Cards recently had an article about focusing on what cards to collect. My main focus is to get every card imaginable and cram them into my house. That's what it would seem anyway. Recently I've been trying to get my Heritage house in order, sorting through all my Chipper Jones cards, snagging pre-war cards as I may and working on those Topps sets that I'm not sure I even want to collect anymore after the most recent short print fiasco. Of course in reality I'm surrounded by piles of cards. Autographs here for one blog, my Play Ball set there for another blog, teetering piles of Braves, wax packs all over the place and, well I don't even know what is in that box anymore. Ok, so I'm not focused. I'm never gonna be.

That doesn't mean that there aren't focused individuals out there. There are team collectors, set collectors, player collectors and smile collectors out there. Honorable pursuits, all. Then I saw this guy. All Rutgers cards. Now that's focus! That's dedication! Major respek knuckles for Rutgers dude! This isn't Floria State or USC or Texas or some big school that has a dozen kids drafted in each sport each year, this is New Jersey's finest. It's inspirational, is what it is. It makes me want to finally start that Luis Sojo player collection I've been wanting to do for a while now. I'll have to clear out some space for a new pile first though.

Who's in the Hall of Fame

I am! The Collector's Weekly has honored me with a spot in their Baseball Collector's Hall of Fame and have also reprinted Ephemera's interview about my Allen & Ginter card collection. (and no, I haven't forgotten about that set, I've been fighting to get the last few cards I need to complete it. You'll see some very soon) The site is an aggregation of collector's websites, information and a very prominent listing of eBay auctions that is pretty mesmerizing for an advertisement. The Collector's Weekly isn't just about baseball cards though, it has articles and links to a ton of of other collectibles. So far I've been fascinated by their board game, record and of course tobacco card pages. And of course there's a blog. There has to be a blog. It's practically a law nowadays. It's a pretty nifty way to lose an afternoon looking at all kinds of neat stuff that you might not have seen before. Or in my case, might not have seen in years such as this article on cardboard Christmas houses. My grandparents had some of these houses that they put out every Holiday season when I was a kid and I probably haven't thought about them since that last Christmas they were put around the tree. I'm normally skeptical of sites that mainly link to other sites but these guys seem to be doing it the right way.